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SB 217, PN1758:
The
legislation amends Title 42 to add a section that requires the
Pennsylvania Commission on Sentencing to establish guidelines for State
intermediate punishment and adding a chapter entitled State Intermediate
Punishment and further requires the Pennsylvania Department of
Corrections to establish a Drug Offender Treatment Program. A 49-0 vote
was recorded.
The following
amendment was agreed to the prior to final passage and included in the
final language of the bill:
A2662(Greenleaf):
This is a
technical amendment that specifies that the bill provides for the
Pennsylvania
Commission on Sentencing
in the title of the bill.
HB 445, PN4074:
The legislation
creates the Sign
Language Interpreter and Transliterator State Registration Act. The
bill provides that individuals seeking registration as qualified
interpreters/transliterators register with the Department of Labor &
Industry. The department is vested with the responsibility of
administering the act and maintaining a list of all registered
interpreters/transliterators.
A2657(Lemmond):
This
amendment adds those individuals who are engaged in interpreting or
transliterating in a physician’s office, provided that the patient is
informed the individual is not registered, to the list of those exempted
from state registration requirements under this act. The amendment was
agreed to.
SB 931, PN1759:
The legislation
amends the Police
Officer, Firefighter, Corrections Employee and National Guard Member
Child Beneficiary Education Act to extend eligibility for the
postsecondary educational gratuity program to children of sheriffs and
deputy sheriffs. The bill extends the gratuity program to children of
sheriffs and deputy sheriffs killed in the performance of their duties.
A 49-0 vote was recorded.
The following
amendment was agreed to the prior to final passage and included in the
final language of the bill:
A2471(Pileggi):
This is a
technical amendment that changes the effective date of the bill from 60
days to immediately.
HB 1488, PN1878:
The legislation
repeals Act 378 of
1919 that fixed the salaries and compensation of the officers, clerks
and employees in the Recorder of Deeds office in a First Class County.
The salary schedule became outdated when Philadelphia adopted a home
rule charter that contains new salary schedules. A 49-0 vote was
recorded.
The Senate also
voted to insist upon House concurrence to Senate amendments to the
following bill and that the President Pro Tempore appoint a committee of
conference. A 49-0 vote was recorded.
HB 564, PN2474:
The legislation is an omnibus amendment to the Public School Code
providing for basic education funding, requiring schools to reopen their
budgets, limiting unreserved fund balances, providing for auxiliary
services, professional teacher assessment, costs of certain exceptional
children, providing for the head start supplemental assistance program,
for education empowerment districts, for school improvement grants and
for mandate waiver program, vocational education funding, community
colleges, educational improvement tax credits, small district
assistance, charter and cyber schools, and duties of the State Board of
Education.
EXECUTIVE NOMINATIONS:
The
following nominees were confirmed by the Senate. A 50-0 vote was
recorded for each.
Marwan Kreidie, State Civil Service Commission
Honorable William E. Keyser, Constables’ Education and Training Board
Pamela E. Toto, State Board of Occupational Therapy Education and
Licensure
John F. Callahan, D.O., State Board of Osteopathic Medicine
Jane Billings, State Planning Board
Ellen Ferretti, State Planning Board
Helen O’Neill Morris, Ed.D., L.C.S.W., State Board of Social Workers,
Marriage and Family Therapists and Professional Counselors
Catherine J. Fizzano, Delaware County Board of Assistance
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